8 Sweet Social Media Reactions to the Royal Baby News

The newest heir to the throne — a boy — came into the world today at at 4:24 p.m. weighing 8 pounds, 6 ounces. Although his parents have yet to announce his name, the son of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge was a trending topic on Twitter today and inspired a great deal of fan art on Tumblr and Pinterest as well. On Facebook, there were more than one million global mentions of the royal birth.Here are a few of our favorite memes.

1. The Today Show is reliving the big moment at Buckingham Palace with this GIF.

2. This Pinterest user has made an actual royal baby out of frosting and chocolate cake. A spectacular amount of effort went into this.3. The (unofficial) Kensington Palace Tumblr blog has a small, but memorable collection of images and tweets about the royal birth.